The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been told that convicted paedophile Vincent Ryan revealed his sexual attraction to children before he was ordained as a Catholic priest. Today's hearing has also heard evidence from one of Ryan's victims, who also ...

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard harrowing details about the dark past of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese in New South Wales. Catholic priest Vincent Ryan was the focus of the first day of a highly-anticipated public hearing. ...

A child sexual abuse survivor has broken down while recounting to a royal commission how he was repeatedly molested by a NSW priest who "was like Jekyll and Hyde" and warned him "nobody will believe you because I am a priest"....

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will begin a public investigation today into one of the institutions that led to its very inception. The hearing examining the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in NSW comes after a Special Commission of Inquiry. ...

New South Wales Premier Mike Baird rules out former police minister Mike Gallacher returning to cabinet in light of the ICAC report into political donations handed down today, but says he and other MPs have already paid a "heavy price"....

A Catholic priest who sexually assaulted boys during wrestling bouts is sentenced to a minimum of five years and four months in jail after being convicted of 44 child sex offences against six victims....

One of Australia's most senior Anglican's has admitted he didn't act on complaint of a paedophile ring operating in the Newcastle diocese, which he led for more than a decade. Roger Herft said he regretted he had not been more alert to what was going on. ...

An Anglican Archbishop has told the Child Abuse Royal Commission that he failed to respond effectively to claims a priest in the Newcastle region was a prolific paedophile. Archbishop Roger Herft was the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle for more than a decade. During that period he ...

One of Australia's most senior Anglicans, the Archbishop of Perth Roger Herft, tells a royal commission he would not report child sexual abuse allegations if he did not know the name of the alleged victim....

A former police officer brought in to clean up the Anglican church in Newcastle, which had faced years of child sexual abuse allegations, says he has "no doubt" harassing phone calls and attacks on his home were related to his work....